The problem on Win32, is that Win32 dosn't support "select" on pipes. IPC::Open3 uses pipes to connect to the command, while IPC::Run uses sockets( win32 select works on sockets). BUT, if you can figure out a way to NOT use select, and get the pipes flushed, you may be able to use it. Your main problem is output may be sitting in the pipe, but without $select->can_read, you won't know it. See Pipe Problem for some ideas.

I don't use MSwindows, but there probably are hacks to get around the problem, like using sysread to read 1 byte at a time, until nothing is there, or see Non-blocking Reads from Pipe Filehandle

You can use the SuperSearch here for many examples of using Open3, but remember, no select is available to you... so you need a workaround. See Perl/Tk App and Interprocess Communication. If you are using an event-loop system, you can setup a timer to repeatedly read the pipe until no bytes are there. Also see " perldoc -q 'capture STDERR' "

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In reply to Re^3: TTY help by zentara
in thread TTY help by sweetj

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